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    "ocrText": "MEMORANDUM CONCERNING CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS\nIn 1961 the Virgin Islands legislature, at the request of Governor Ralph M.\nPaiewonsky, passed a Civil Rights Act which reenacted prior legistation on the books\nsince 1940, and added new provisions to strengthen the laws and prevent circumvention.\nStatement of Public Policy\nThe 1961 statute contains the following Statement of Public Policy:\n\"Whereas this title is enacted under the police power of the Territory of the\nVirgin Islands, for the protection of the public welfare, order, health, safety, and\npeace of all the people therein; and\n\"Whereas the Legislature finds and hereby declares that practices of racial\ndiscrimination against any of the inhabitants of the Virgin Islands because of\nrace, creed, color, or national origin not only threatens the rights and proper\nprivileges of its inhabitants but menaces and threatens the foundations of a free\nand democratic. terratory and menaces and threatens the peace, order, health, safety,\nand general welfare of its inhabitants; and\n\"Whereas it is the cultural and democratic heritage of the people of the Virgin\nIslands to respect the human and civil rights of all people and to judge all\npersons according to their individual merit without reference to race, creed,\ncolor, or national origin; and to cherish the racial equality, harmony, and\ngoodwill that exists in the Virgin Islands; and\n\"Whereas racial discrimination, segregation, and other forms of bias and bigotry\nare not part of the way of life of the peeple of the Virgin Islands:\n\"Now, therefore, it is declared to be the public policy of the Virgin Islands\nthat all natural persons within its jurisdiction shall be entitled to the full\nand equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of any place\nof public accommodations, resort, or amusement, and to the equal opportunity\nand treatment in employment in any and all businesses and industrial establish-\nments, and to membership in all labor organizations, and to equal privileges in\nthe purchase, lease, or rental of real estate, and in the purchase of any commodity\nor service offered for sale; subject only to conditions or limitations imposed\nby law and applicable in like manner to all persons.\n\"In order to implement this public policy, it is the intent of this chapter to\nprevent and prohibit discrimination in any form based upon race, creed, color, or\nnational origin, whether practiced directly or indirectly, or by subterfuge in\nany and all places of public accommodations resort, or amusement, and in all\nsales of real estate, goods, articles, accommodations, commodities, or services,\nand in the employment of persons, or their working conditions, or obtaining union\nmembership, and to prohibit clubs from establishing a private clientele of either\nmembers or guests, which they has selected, and with which persons alone will\nthey transact their business and commerce.'"
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